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Cherokee Co., Iowa | The moth counts this year have been very low compared to the past three or four years that we have been doing this. We may still get higher counts but I would think that with the high temperatures we have been having that the peak flights should have occured by now. Some nights in the past we have had over 300 moths in the trap jug, takes a while to count. I use a small kitchen sieve to dip them out of the antifreeze solution in the milk jug, dump them out on the back of an old seed corn sign and count them off in piles of ten. There are some egg masses and some have hatched but as of now no spraying that I know of. If you have corn that has the Herculex gene it seems to do a great job of control.
For those readers that don't know what the damage to the ear of corn looks like there is a link on the left side of the Iowa State home page that will take you to pictures of the moths and the damage to the ear.
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Western Bean Cutworm
